Upright wire and picket fence making machine



(ModeL) M00 HILL 8; J. N. RIDER.

UPRIGHT WIRE AND PIGKET FENCE MAKING MACHINE.

No. 381,548. Patented Apr. 241E888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT rrrcn.

MCCOBD HILL AND JOHN N. RIDER, OF WALNUT GROVE, ASSIGNORS OF ONE- THIRD TO WILLIAM H. WILLIAMS, OF SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI.

UPRIGHT WIRE AND PICKET FENCE MAKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 381,548, dated April 2%, 1888.

Application filed September 4, 1886. Serial No. 212,665.

["0 ad? whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, MoGoRn HILL and Joan N. RIDER, citizens of the United States, residing at \Valnut Grove, in the county of Greene and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Upright \Vire and Picket Fence Making Machines; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the-same.

Our invention relates to improvements on the J. M. Fultz upright wire and picket fence making machine,dated May 13, 1884, and numbered 298,368, the object of which is to provide a cheap, simple, durable, and convenient device for operating said machine by one man instead of two, as is now required, and also to save power. These objects we secure by means of the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which-- Figure 1 is aviewin elevation of the device. Fig. 2 is a view of the improvement detached.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

A is the top piece of the Fultz machine,having the slots a for receiving the pickets, and g are the revolving shafts for holding the bobbins g on which the wire is placed.

D is a large cog-wheel secured on one of the shafts g for driving the same.

B B are frames consisting of uprights b, having boxings c for a shaft, 0, and cross-pieces if, provided with arms I) b, extending upward from the cross-pieces If, for receiving the lath to be fed into the machine.

0 is a shaft provided with a pinion, E, to

ModeL) engage the drivewheel D, for propelling the o The frames may be placed on either side of 1,5

the machine and secured in place by means of belts or other suitable device, but are preferably ou the right-hand side, so that the wheel may be operated by the right hand,while the pickets are placed with the left. et-s being placed over the handle for turning, it is not necessary to reach over the machine to get them,and one man can do as much work, and with greater case, than two men with the old-style machine.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination with an upright fence- These pickmaking machine, having a cog-wheel, D, on

one of the twister-shafts,'pinion E, shaft 0, balance-wheel F,having ahandle,f,and frames B B, substantially as shown and described.

2. In combination with an upright fencemaking machine, having cog-Wheel D on one and described, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

MCOORD HILL. JOHN N. RIDER.

Witnesses:

J. H. BRADLEY, NANNIE DAVIS. 

